meta data and more: February 2004

Google Search: ben strawbridge

Google Images Search: ben strawbridge - Well the images experiment has come to a close. It started way back in December 2002 when I rigged my home page for the google images spider, to see if my picture would show up soon. It did spider the site, but instead caught a link of my friend nick drinking in a pub (here is the original post). It finally is getting itself caught up, now there is a picture of Ben Strawbridge the soccer player, me and still nick, as well as a picture of my brother as a toddler, a graphic element with only color from a website I built 2 1/2 years ago and the image that is next to my name on the credits page of another website i built a long time ago.
link |  post-page - 3:14 PM by Ben Strawbridge   

Ouzo In Heaven 2

Ouzo is at it again. He loves to roll around in stuff on his back, be it leaves, snow or a pile of cow dung!
post-page - 1:36 PM by Ben Strawbridge   

Access windows share from Linux

For some reason I have to look this up every time; hopefully this will solidify it in my brain. To mount a windows share from your linux desktop, open your shell (bash for me) and type in the following command:
bash-2.05b$ sudo smbmount [path to share] [path to local drive] -o username=[username for windows share] workgroup=[windows workgroup]
The first word is sudo, the super user doer application. If you are logged in as root you don't need to use sudo. Some systems don't have sudo installed, so if you know the root password you can use the su -c '[type the command you want to run as root]' command. The next word is smbmount which is the command to mount an smbfs or (samba) file system. Samba is what linux uses to access to windows, if you don't have it this won't work. The path to share looks something like this [ \\machineName\sharename ]. You need to create a directory to mount this onto. Mine is [ /mnt/share ]. Finally you put the username and workgroup for your windows share. Additionally you may add the password, but it will prompt you interactively if you do not. It is recommended to use ALL CAPS for the windows user name and password. As windows is not case sensitive and linux is it can cause problems not using all caps with some windows systems.
post-page - 8:33 PM by Ben Strawbridge   

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